Satmar Protest in Washington DC
VIN News Washington - Over two thousand fervently Orthodox Jews protested outside the White House against the excavation of ancient graves in Israel.
The protest, organized by True Torah Jews, the Central Rabbinical Congress, and Asra Kadisha, took place Tuesday to coincide with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit with President Obama.
According to Rabbi David Niederman, a representative for the Central Rabbinical Congress, the protest had three goals. In addition to raising awareness about what the groups view as the desecration of ancient gravesites in Ashkelon and Jaffa, event organizers wanted to draw a distinction between the state of Israel and the Jewish people. They also wanted to protest the Israeli government’s suppression of protesters in Israel who disapprove of the excavations.
“Free speech and religion must prevail,” Niederman said. “The state of Israel does not represent the Jewish people.”
Protesters delivered a petition to Israel’s embassy in Washington on Tuesday morning. According to Niederman, the embassy refused to accept the petition
The Catskill Summer Concert Series!
Green Apple Productions Presents
The Catskill Summer Concert Series
Come enjoy your summer melave malkes with colorful kosher musical entertainment
Music by the Freilach Orchestra
August 7th: Yehuda Green, Benny Friedman and R' Michoel Schnitzler
August 14th: Shloime Gertner and 8th day
The stardust auditorium in the new Kutshers Hotel - 1 Kutsher Road Monticello, NY(down the road from walmart)
doors open @ 10:15 show begins @ 10:45
Tickets are just $25! (come early for a good seat.) The shows will be followed by an all you can eat buffet Melave Malka $15.
For tickets call 845 445 9550 or email greenappleproductions@rocketmail.com
VIP, Separate Seating, Family, Camp/Group rates all available.
Ticket outlets: Jewishtickets.com, Monsey: Tuvias Book Store, Fallsburg: Fallsburg Bagels, Loch Sheldrake: Dizzy Izzys
TICKETS WILL ALSO BE SOLD AT THE DOOR (cash only)
Leave the mountains on a positive "note"!
Firefighters Battling 3rd Alarm Fire at Fellers-Pizza
Woodridge, NY - Firefighters are battling a fire at Woodridge Pizza & Cafe on Broadway, emergency reports indicate.
Firefighters from multiple departments and Catskills Hatzolah are all on the scene at 9 Broadway for the 3-Alarm fire at Fellers Pizza store.
Units on the scene are reporting that a collapse zone has been set up at this time after top floor has collapsed in. According to Times Herald Record Five firefighters were injured battling the blaze, said Sullivan County Deputy Fire Coordinator Bill Lothrop, with most suffering smoke inhalation. VIN News
Jimmy with another Supreme Court Justice Confirmation Hearing Moment of the Day
Whew! What a moment, hope they have it in slow-mo!
Cantor Yaakov Lemmer - "My Grandpa's Dream" (Yiddish)
Cantor Yaakov Lemmer Sings "My Grandpa's Dream" in Yiddish Accompanied by the Mezamrim Choir at a Bar Mitzvah in Boro Park Song and Lyrics Composed by Cantor Leibele Waldman
At least 220 die as fuel truck explodes in Congo
SANGE, Congo — A tanker truck hauling fuel on a rural eastern Congo highway overturned, gushing oil and exploding in a massive fireball that killed about 220 bystanders, including many who had been watching the World Cup in flimsy roadside shacks, officials and witnesses said Saturday.
The Red Cross said at least 61 children and 36 women were among the dead. Witnesses said dozens of people had descended on the truck to siphon fuel illegally from the wreckage with jerry-cans and plastic buckets, apparently unaware of the danger.
U.N. peacekeepers rushed to evacuate more than 200 wounded from the scene by helicopter and ambulance, while Red Cross teams carried the charred bodies from the scene in body bags and buried them in two mass graves a few miles away.
The truck overturned as it was trying to pass a minibus late Friday near the village of Sange, around 20 miles north of Uvira, a town on the northern tip of Lake Tanganyika near the Burundi border, said Mana Lungwe, manager of the Congolese oil company that owns the truck. The vehicle began gushing oil, then burst into flames an hour later.
Lungwe said the driver was injured in the accident and taken to a local clinic before the blast occurred. Sange is located between Uvira and the Congolese provincial capital, Bukavu, further to the north.
As oil began leaking from the damaged tanker, Pakistani peacekeepers from a nearby U.N. base "came and told people to get away from the area, but people refused to leave," said Bedide Mwasha, a 45-year-old resident.
"Men, women and children, even (government) soldiers were stealing petrol," Mwasha said, adding that when night fell, one woman lit a kerosene lamp that may have ignited the blaze.
דבר תורה-פרשת פינחס
The בנות צלפחד came to משה רבינו and complained that their father died in the מדבר from his own sin, and specified that he was not a part of קרח ועדתו.
The משך חכמה says that חז"ל tell us that the בנות צלפחד were very wise, smart women. They were able to דרשן out a rather interesting הלכה in their favor, to which ה' concurred. They knew that the children of people killed via בית דין מיתת still inherit their father’s properties, while the children of someone executed for rebelling against the king lose their inheritance to the king’s dominion. משה רבינו had the status of a מלך, as חז"ל learn out from the פסוק of ויהי בישורון מלך, they therefore were quite particular and wise in their wording when they said to משה רבינו that "בחטאו מת", he died from his own sin, either from the sin of the מעפילים, those who tried to go up to ארץ ישראל without permission, or he was the מקושש עצים on שבת, and therefore his property went to his יורשים, namely, the daughters. However, if he had been in the עדת קרח, who split away from משה רבינו in order to rebel against him, he would have been considered someone who was executed by the king, and for this reason, they specified that he was killed for his own עבירות, and was very much not a part of קרח ועדתו.
אי"ה, we should all take a lesson from the בנות צלפחד to learn to be careful in the way that we speak, and that ה' should be מסכים to everything that comes out of our mouths.
Have a wonderful שבת קודש!!!
מרדכי שמחה טיפנברון
Smoking Baby is Real
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CBS News Exclusive: The Indonesian smoking baby video was an Internet sensation that left many in disbelief. CBS News cameras found the boy in a small fishing village with a lit cigarette in hand.
Suicide bombers caught on Tape
CCTV has captured the moment terrorists attacked and killed at least 41 people and 175 more at a shrine in Pakistan.
Jimmy brings us "Elina Kagan Supreme Court Justice Confirmation Moment of the Day"
Prepare yourselves for the craziest moment of the confirmation!
New Rock Band: Atzmus
WARNING:Contains music! (What did you think it was rock-apella?)
This amazing and unique (yeah, Lubavitch dude rocking away is unique, with all due respect to Piamenta) rock band is called AZTMUS. They signed with CONTROL47RECORDS for the release of their first album "CIUADAD DE LUZ' (CITY OF LIGHT). The CD will be soon available in stores across the U.S. and exclusively at their website here for worldwide sales and distribution.
Badchen Motty Ilowitz - Mitzvah Tanz
Composer and Badchen Motty Ilowitz Calling The Choson Kallah To The Mitzvah Tanz
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